Dr. Brent Binder and Becca Blackwell, 2021. Photo: Jess Barbagallo
IN EARLY FEBRUARY, I hopped in a car bound for Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania with my friend Becca Blackwell. Our mission was a mixture of business and pleasure: to visit Youtube-famous chiropractor, and hallowed muscle whisperer, Dr. Brent Binder. Becca either a performance artist with a staggering knowledge of touch specialists or an anarchist pervert, depending on your chosen paradigm is working on a new solo performance installation,
The Body Never Lies. exploring the possibilities for healing beyond western medicine, which often fails its Hippocratic mandate by ignoring the idiosyncratic self-knowledge of the patient.